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Sally B. Patterson

The US Defense Department has gobbled up all of the material on Afghanistan from the only commercial satellite company that can currently provide 1-m-resolution images. A contract with Space Imaging Inc. of Thornton, Colo., gives the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) – a Defense Department branch – exclusive rights to all of the time that the company's satellite Ikonos spends in orbit over Afghanistan and another (undisclosed) country, and to all of the images it produces there. The initial agreement covered the period from Oct. 7 through Nov. 5 and included the option to renew on...Read full article

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    Published: December 2001
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